The Driller Killer is one of the most notorious flims ever.

It almost single-handedly spawned the media video nasty hysteria of 1984 and the introduction of the video recordings act.

It is also the film that launched the career and reputation of critically acclaimed director Abel Ferrara.

Away from the hysteria, The Driller Killer is a powerful and compelling story of one mans descent into madness and violence. Reno is a struggling artist close to breaking point.

The loud punk band in the flat next door practices for 24 hours a day.

His debts are mounting.

He needs to sell his new painting to pay the overdue rent on his shabby New York apartment that he shares with his girlfriend and her spaced-out lesbian lover.

Despite the desperate need for cash, Reno will not admit that he has completed the painting.

It becomes an obsession.

In his troubled mind the picture triggers a violence he cannot contain...